How migration affects economic welfare in sending and receiving countries is an important issue. This paper deals mainly with one aspect, the relation between immigration and the real wage in the host country. Theory is ...
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a
matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent
economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various
domains of well-being. ...
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leaves in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals ...
McCann, Fergal(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export status for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Two-way traders and exporters-only are found to be ...
Devereux, Paul J.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-01)
Grouping models are widely used in economics but are subject to finite sample bias. I show that the standard errors-in-variables estimator (EVE) is exactly equivalent to the Jackknife Instrumental Variables Estimator (JIVE), ...
We introduce two simple new variants of the Jackknife Instrumental Variables (JIVE) estimator for overidentified linear models and show that they are superior to the existing JIVE estimator, significantly
improving on its ...
The purpose of the paper is to determine how much of the employment in the Marketed Services Sector (MSS) is generated directly and indirectly by the demand for output of the Goods Producing Sectors (GPS), namely, agriculture, ...